Special Congressional elections held in Massachusetts and Florida produced expected results on Tuesday and left unchanged the narrow edge Republicans hold over Democrats in the House. At the same time, in primary voting in Arkansas, Democrats and...

State Senator Stephen Lynch, a conservative Democrat from a working-class South Boston neighborhood, won the party's primary on Tuesday and advanced to a special election next month to fill the Congressional seat that was held by Joe Moakley, who...

John Joseph Moakley Jr., the late United States Representative from Massachusetts, was known as a regular guy from South Boston, a Democrat who did right by many. Now that it is time to choose his successor, voters are saying they would not mind a...

September 9, 2001, Sunday

The Next Kennedy was sitting in an upholstered chair in a brownstone just off Kenmore Square in Boston, getting ready to run. Max, 36, the ninth child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, had come to the office of his media consultant, Doug Hattaway, to...

When Max Kennedy dropped out of the race to fill the House seat in Boston left vacant by the death of Representative Joe Moakley, a popular state senator from the district, Stephen Lynch, moved to the top of the list of Democrats (Democrats dominate...

State Senator Stephen F. Lynch is considered a top contender to fill the Congressional seat on Boston's South Side that was left open by the death of Representative Joe Moakley. But gay political leaders in the district, the Massachusetts Ninth, put...

June 24, 2001, Sunday

Maxwell Taylor Kennedy unexpectedly announced today that he was giving up his months-long flirtation with a run for Congress. He had looked into his three young children's eyes, he said, and decided that this was the wrong time to enter politics. ...

Here is a postscript on the funeral Mass offered June 1 in Boston for Representative Joe Moakley: News photographs taken in the church showed the front row occupied by, from left, President Bush, Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift, Senator Edward M....